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The main façade, created by Joan d'Aragó, an important baroque architect and maker of retables in mid-eighteenth century Mallorca, is flanked by two colcadors, or stone mounting-blocks. Its large portal (portal forà), whose doors are sheathed in bronze, has on either side two elliptical windows of the kind called ojo de buey (ox-eye) and is set off by two columns and a lovely baroque frame of reddish local stone.

The coffered ceiling, the work of Almohade craftsmen, was built in 1170. It is worked in pine and holm-oak wood, with inlays forming beautiful and typical arabesques. On the lower part are inlaid the coats-of-arms of the Arabic families who lived on the estate, and next to those of the Moor Ben-Abet of the thirteenth century, the bars of the Kingdom of Aragon and Catalonia superimposed. The frieze reads "Allah is great. Allah's the power. There is no god but Allah.

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Opened: 1.4.-31.10. Monday to Saturday 9.30am - 6.30pm, 1.11.-31.3. Monday to Friday 9.30am-5.30pm, Saturday 9.30am-1pm